Third Party Affiliate Scripts:

Fusion Quest - Uses your own domain, which they say is a bonus. It can be used with your merchant account, PayPal and others. You can make it multi-tier program or pay-per-click. There’s a hefty one-time start-up fee or you can choose a monthly payment plan. There are no percentage or transaction fees.

QuickPayPro - $45 per month gives you more than just an affiliate program. It also includes ad trackers, sales calculators, digital product delivery, follow-up autoresponders and email. This is the program we use for the Truth about Traffic Affiliate Program.

ClickBank - This is a pretty affordable solution with limitations. Unfortunately, you don’t know who is selling your product on their website as people can make their links without signing up with you. To partially overcome this, you can ask people to complete a form to sign up for your affiliate program from your website. ClickBank is limited to electronic/information products and it doesn’t have a 2-tier option.

Payloadz - Payloadz is for electronic products and PayPal payments only. However, this program allows buyers to automatically download your product and has a built-in affiliate program for $15 per month. There’s no set up fee or per transaction fee. The drawbacks are that you don’t necessarily know who is selling your product and affiliates have to make their own sales page. (They aren’t sent to your sales page, but to your PayPal order page).

Commission Junction - This is a top notch program, but I put it last because it has a hefty start up and maintenance fee that is often beyond the reach of a small home-based business.